Valley Heights Platform 1877

Valley Heights (322m)

William Cox referred in 1815 to "The Valley" as a suitable site for watering and feeding stock. By 1832 it had been designated as a resting place for stock and was known as Fitzgerald’s Valley (possibly after Richard Fitzgerald whom Governor Macquarie had appointed Superintendent of the agricultural farm at Emu Plains in 1819). Above the valley on the Western Road an inn was opened in 1831 under the name The Valley Inn (later known as The Woolpack and The Welcome Inn). With the arrival of the railway in 1867, the inn closed and was sold to the Hon. Geoffrey Eagar MLA. A railway platform was opened as Eagar’s Platform in 1875. This became The Valley in 1877 and Valley Heights in 1880. A steam locomotive depot operated here from 1913 until the electrification of the railway line in 1957. The actual valley itself is now known as Sun Valley.

 

Format: B&W photograph from glass negative

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Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/

Part of: Local Studies Collection SHS 263

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